Human Rights Campaign Global Director Ty Cobb in a statement described the resolution’s passage as “a significant milestone in the global effort for LGBTQ equality.” Yahia Zaidi, an LGBT activist from Algeria who currently lives in Brussels, made a similar point on his Facebook page.

“The Human Rights Council made a historic step towards equality,” he wrote.

The U.N. Human Rights Council in 2014 adopted a resolution against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The U.N. Security Council in a June 13 statement that condemned the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., specifically denounced anti-LGBT violence for the first time.